HC Deb 07 April 1971 vol 815 cc232-3W
Mr. Madel

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Her Majesty's Government would support the enlargement of Western European Union to include Norway, Eire, Denmark and Austria, in the event of the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community.

Mr. Rippon

Her Majesty's Government would certainly be prepared to consider a suggestion of this kind with an open mind, in the circumstances envisaged. But in the first instance this would depend on whether the governments concerned wished to accede to the Revised Brussels Treaty.